If you post your climate zone rating, section of the country, and a hint about your growing conditions, e.g. containerized vs. in-ground....full sun, and how you will over-winter your figs....you will get more accurate recommendations.

Try:
Hardy Chicago *
Black Mission *
Green Ischia
Brown Turkey
Celeste
Kadota
Atreano-Belleclare *

* High quality figs, delicious, easily available, prolific, short-
season, quick-bearing.

Good luck, and have fun.

Frank

Kadota
Black Jack/black mission (some say they are the same, but BJ is a sport)
Panache Tiger
Violette de Bordeaux
Peter's Honey

All but the Kadota grow well in my zone (semicoastal).

How about Khurtmanni / Red Palestine?
the color is so delightful..

Those reds look awesome.

I am in zone 5a and am looking to expand my fig collection for container growing of figs. I would like to add one or more of the following:
Black Mission
Osborne Prolific
Dauphine
Black Madiera
Conadria
Green Ischia
Celeste
Atreano- Belleclare
Please contact me for trades or to sell cuttings.
Thanks!

Bob

Are you sure you want only 5?
I bet that you will end up with at least 50!

Is Khurtmani the same as red Palestine?
Timothy

I used to grow figs when we lived in GA. Moved to Pittsburgh for 12 years, took a cutting from GA and had figs every year! Just moved South again - Charlotte - zone 7. Any suggestionns for top 5? I cannot recall the name of the yellow-green fig we grew in GA, but would love to grow it again. They were big and so, so juicy and sweet. Any ideas? Also, when should we plant? Thanks!
PS - Sadly, a friend from PA told me that the buyers of our home ripped the fig tree out. I almost cried. I babied that tree through 12 Pittsburgh winters and cherished those figs.

actually, khurtmani comes from Palestine, which is widely cultivated in israel.
So, I prefer called khurtmani as red Palestine than red israel

Hardy Chicago/Sal's EL/Marseilles Black VS
Celeste
Black Madeira
Col de Dame
Violette de Bordeaux

What color was the pulp of the fig that you grew in Georgia?

TyGa,
I have a cousin that lives in the ATL! Man I have a lot of figs growing in the Queen City! Try growing these:

Tacoma Violet
Celeste
Don Fortiss
Marseilles Blace
Peter's Honey
Excel

Dennis
Charlotte, NC
Zone 8a

My top 5 are:
1. Hardy Chicago (still have cuttings)
2. Celeste (purple) (still have cuttings)
3. Fico Nero (Black Fig) (still have cuttings)
4. Nero Nobili (Black Nobile) (still have cuttings)
5. Brown Turkey (still have cuttings)
Honorable mention - Texas Everbearing

Violette de Bordeaux
Black Madeira
Ischia Green
Peter's Honey
Col de Dame

Scot-ga, sorry I haven't checked here sooner.
Wow, it's hard to recall the color of the pulp in the green/yellow fig. I believe it was pale, but I could be wrong. Many years ago. So many here in the top 5! I'm considering Peter's Honey, Kadota and Ischia Green. Are they all fast growers? I prefer thin skin - do any/all of these have it? And sweet - I'm a fresh fig eater and occasionally grill them. I wish I had a bigger yard so I could have more!

lizkuntne,

I grow Peter's Honey in my backyard, it is very precocious, sweet, and thin sknned.

Kadota is quite sweet but does require a long hot summer to ripen. I have mainly eaten it off of trees in Fresno, CA but have never grown them personally. I would describe Kadota as medium thickness of skin, not exactly thick.

Still trying to find a reliable source of Green Ischias!

Juragan, where did you get that?

get as many as your space will allow and keep those you like and eliminate others you don't.

everyone likes Hardy Chicago and VdB. Black Madeira is supposed to be the one of the best figs, if not the best. but it needs long, hot summer with plenty of sun.

Col de Dame figs are amazing taste, but they are late ripening.

there are unknowns that taste great, but might not be too readily available.

you can rack up fig trees like 6 yr old collecting pokemon cards.

New to growing figs. Have a few common ones planted last year. Would love to buy or trade for cuttings of Hardy Chicago, black Madeira or any other figs that will grow in hot south zone 8.

Did the OP say where they are located? Maybe I missed that. Seems that would make a big difference. JMO

I would love to have cuttings of a Khurtmani or a small tree. I have an absolutely fantastic tasting Black Genoa (cuttings or a small tree) I can trade. Prefer in Northern California

I have tasted my first fig in life few days ago. I have got them in farmer market. The guy told me that, it might be brown turkey. I am not impressed with the taste. I wanted to have fig trees in my garden. I heard that VBD and RBD are good tasting varieties. I have one VBD with small fruits. If the taste of VBD and brown turkey are similar, then I don't spend any money on the fig plants. Please let me know how they taste. I would like to have some sweetness in the fruit.

Bunti,

Don't give up on figs. Brown Turkey in a lot of climates can be not great, especially if not fully ripe. VdB is a great tasting fig and figs are all about sweet. Remember, for best taste, they should be soft, fully colored, with shredded skin and droop down from the stem. Pick a day or two early and lose a lot of taste. Have to watch the animals though, they like them too.

We do have severe deer problem. I thought Deers don't eat fig trees or fruits

Bunti, for what it's worth, I have tried Brown Turkey and it is nowhere near as delicious as a VdB. Please don't judge all figs by Brown Turkey!

Today I have got celesta fig from Home Depot. Hope, it will impress me.

I have a conadria, trust me, fresh figs are way better than the store, warm and juicy...

1- Col de Dame

2 - Grise de St. Jean

3 - Chettoui

4 - Belone

5- Di tre Volte bianco etc . . . .

@bunti(7) Available for sale fresh = picked early = not good.

Will Celeste impress you? It's fresh and grown by you so it will. To me a fig is a fig is a fig; the flavor nuances are really only there when eaten fresh and I can only eat so many fresh figs.

I have got celeste from home depot. I didn't get chance to eat them.

Dennis Aka Sanglpus,

I live in charlotte too. I want to get in touch with you. I can't email you. Can you please let me know how to contact you?

Bunti - I have a celeste in Northern VA and I would get no fruit before the first frost if I did not take appropriate action. The actions you may take that will allow you to get some fruit are: 1) Wrap or trench bury the plant to allow its limbs to survive the winter, or; 2) When the new shoots start to grow out of the ground you need to use the "pinch 6" pruning method. That means when a stalk has 6 leave on a stalk, you pinch off the end to spur early fruit development and ultimately, ripening. Continue this process all season. I never get a lot of fruit, but I do get at least one harvest.

lindamarie, veggie_girl, saba99

Hi, unfortunately I live in Southeast asia. Khurtmani is so popular in here, and really2 vigorous. Many People here recommend this one, as a worth fig, to cultivate widely.

With the big size, this kind of fig also called Red Giant variety.

Red Giant include: Blue giant, khurtmani, texas everbearing.